"Ethics Committees" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Committees established by professional societies, health facilities, or other institutions to consider decisions that have bioethical implications. The role of these committees may include consultation, education, mediation, and/or review of policies and practices. Committees that consider the ethical dimensions of patient care are ETHICS COMMITTEES, CLINICAL; committees established to protect the welfare of research subjects are ETHICS COMMITTEES, RESEARCH.
| Descriptor ID |
D017041
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| MeSH Number(s) |
K01.752.566.479.147 N04.452.758.788.300 N05.350.268 N05.700.685.300
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| Concept/Terms |
Ethics Committees- Ethics Committees
- Committee, Ethics
- Committees, Ethics
- Ethics Committee
Regional Ethics Committees- Regional Ethics Committees
- Committee, Regional Ethics
- Committees, Regional Ethics
- Ethics Committee, Regional
- Ethics Committees, Regional
- Regional Ethics Committee
Institutional Ethics Committees- Institutional Ethics Committees
- Committee, Institutional Ethics
- Committees, Institutional Ethics
- Ethics Committee, Institutional
- Ethics Committees, Institutional
- Institutional Ethics Committee
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2017 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Ethics Committees" by people in Profiles.
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COVID-19 and Moral Distress in Healthcare Professionals: Can Ethics Committees Make a Difference? Acta Med Port. 2021 Mar 31; 34(4):323.
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Getting Real: The Maryland Healthcare Ethics Committee Network's COVID-19 Working Group Debriefs Lessons Learned. HEC Forum. 2021 Jun; 33(1-2):91-107.
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[Clinical investigation and informed consent form in times of COVID-19 pandemic. A vision from the committee ethics of research]. Med Clin (Barc). 2021 11 12; 157(9):e307-e308.
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A survey of national ethics and bioethics committees. Bull World Health Organ. 2021 Feb 01; 99(2):138-147.
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Going first: the ethics of vaccine self-experimentation in coronavirus times. Swiss Med Wkly. 2020 11 16; 150:w20415.
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Research during COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Ethics Committees of a Lower Middle Income Country. Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ). 2020 Oct.-Dec.; 18(72):420-422.
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Ethics committees in the time of COVID-19. Epidemiol Prev. 2020 Sep-Dec; 44(5-6 Suppl 2):113-118.
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Ethics committees: Actions during pandemic and lockdown situations. J Postgrad Med. 2020 Jul-Sep; 66(3):119-122.
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Ethical and Legal Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are We Thinking About Rural Hospitals? J Rural Health. 2021 01; 37(1):175-178.
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[Ethics Committees in Portugal: Old and New Challenges]. Acta Med Port. 2020 May 04; 33(5):295-296.